Improvement in folding-steps for carriages



GEGRGE H. VOLLHRDT.

Improvement in Folding-Stps for Carriages.

N0, 5,664, Patentersdjune 6,1`8A71.

PATENT @Teton GECRGE H. V OLLARDTOF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

EMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING-'STEPS FOR CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,664, dated une 6,1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE HVOLLHARDT, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a' new Improvement inFolding-Step for Carriages; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification,and represents, in-

Figure l, a front View; and in Fig. 2, a vertical central section.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of steps forcarriages in which the two steps are combined, so that the folding ofone operates to fold the other; and it consists in the arrangement oftwo steps hinged or pivoted in the frame, combined with a verticaljointed post between the two, so that when the steps are open the postis nearly vertical beneath the upper step, and the turning up of thelower step turns down the upper step in advance, so that the lower stepcovers the upper.

A is the freine, of the usual form 5 B, the lower step, pivoted to theframe at a, so that when turned up, as in Fig. 1, it closes the frame inthe usual manner. C is the upper step, pivoted to the frame at d, so asto fold downward, as denoted in broken lines.` D is one part of apostpivoted to the upper step at f; E, the other part of the post rigidly,Tixed to the lower step, and the two parts jointed together as at b, witha shoulder, t', in the rear, to arrest the post when the two ports arebrought into line, as in Fig. 2, the post in this position serving as asupport for the upper step.

To close the steps, the lower step is raised, which throws the jointback, drawing down the upper step'in advance of the rising of the lowerstep, so that when the lower step is fully closed, the upper step andjointed post are closed in behind the lower step, as denotedin brokenlines, Fig.2. To open the step, reverse the operation.

I claim as my invention- The two steps B C pivoted in the frame, in themanner described, and combined with the jointed post D E, so as tooperate as and for the purpose specified.

- GEORGE H. VOLLHARDT.

Vitnesses:

JOHN H. SHUMWAY,

A. J. Trenrrs.

